Nightline Thursday focused on the use of stun guns and restraint chairs on prisoners. They have a story and transcript online (the transcript will only be up for a week or two).
They interviewed Ann-Marie Cusac of the Progressive. She won a George Polk award for her story, Stunning Technology. She also wrote Shock Value and The Devil's Chair.
They also interviewed John Conroy, author of Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture. John Schwartz reviews the book in the Washington Post. His stories on torture by the Chicago Police are online. There is an interview with him from March on WBUR's The Connection.
A representative from Amnesty International which has reported on the abuse of these devices was interviewed. A Phoenix
weekly has story on one of the jails in the Nightline report.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/21/2000 2:02:05 AM |
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The New York Times series How Race is Lived in America has concluded with a special issue of the New York Times Magazine. David Carr of Inside.com has a critique of it.
Michael Moore has endorsed Ralph
Nader and explains why he Ain't Fallin' For That One Again . You can watch in real video Nader's July 18th
speech at the National Press Club (it is also running on many NPR stations).
posted by steve rhodes on 7/21/2000 1:28:06 AM |
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She touches on how aware they are that they are on a tv show - something that is rarely shown on the actual tv show. Most of them know all of the other reality shows and the media attention people on Survivor have received. But they are a bit naive about how much is being shown on the internet. How most everything that happens is being related in chats, on message boards and posted on websites which are springing up all over.
The best designed of the fan sites is Big Brother Central. It has links to most of the other sites
including The Red Room. Fan sites have already sprung up for
George, Jamie and Brittany (the last is part of a contest CBS is having). As always, TV Tattle has lots of links to Big Brother stories.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/18/2000 11:59:21 PM |
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Robot Wisdom has a link to a profile of Carl Hiaasen, a columnist for the Miami Herald and
author of a number of novels. Random House has a page on his latest, Sick Puppy, which has an interview and excerpt from the audiobook.
He wrote a piece, Real Life, That Bizarre and Brazen Plagiarist, for the New York Times'
Writers on Writing series.
posted by steve rhodes on 7/18/2000 2:36:43 PM |
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